Herr

\hɛʁ\

/\hɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“Herr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,434) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#32,434
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monsieur, appellation permettant de s’adresser de façon polie à un homme, normalement suivi par son nom de famille ou son titre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-herr · Herr · French

Herr · rank #32,434 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,434
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH herpès

Nearest frequency peer: herpès (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Herr »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Herr » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Herr vs hr
25% similar
Herr vs hey
25% similar
Herr vs Heu
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Herr
PropertyValue
HeadwordHerr
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\hɛʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#32,434
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Herr »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Herrse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « herpès » (#32,433), « huet » (#32,435), « Humboldt » (#32,436). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « Herr » est au #32,434. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Herr is neighbouring look-alikes ("hr", "hey", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \hɛʁ\. Frequency #32,434 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Herr, with forms such as "ehrr", "hherr", and "hrer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hr", "hey", "Heu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Herr, spelled H-E-R-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Monsieur, appellation permettant de s’adresser de façon polie à un homme, normalement suivi par son nom de famille ou son titre.
  2. 2
    Homme, expression polie.
  3. 3
    Personne en charge d'une chose ou d'une personne. Autrefois, cette charge était souvent un privilège de la noblesse.
  4. 4
    Seigneur.
  5. 5
    Seigneur, Dieu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Herr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Wie geht es Ihnen heute, Herr Müller?
  2. Die Sekretärin bringt Herrn Kluge die Post.

Synonyms

AllmächtigerVaterBossGottVorgesetzterLordKönigMisterHerrscherMannSirMeister

Antonyms

SklaveUntergebenerDameDienerLadyMadameFrau

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ehrr
  • hherr
  • hrer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Herr - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ehrr2hherr1hrer2
Edit distance from "Herr"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Herr"?
"Herr" is spelled H-E-R-R. The IPA pronunciation is \hɛʁ\.
What does "Herr" mean?
As a noun, "Herr" means: Monsieur, appellation permettant de s’adresser de façon polie à un homme, normalement suivi par son nom de famille ou son titre.
What words are commonly confused with "Herr"?
"Herr" is commonly confused with "hr", "hey", "Heu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Herr"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Herr" is \hɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Herr" come from?
"Herr" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Herr", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

huet#32,435gail#32,416Lyme#32,471didi#32,370

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list